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or trichotomous. Flowers sessile, the calyx shallowly toothed, 
wrinkled when dry, reddish brown, 2 to 2.5 mm long, the petals 
suborbicular, 2 mm in diameter, more or less calyptrate. 
Mindanao, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 3U521 (type), 34722 
Ramos & Pascasio , June 14, 1919, on ridges and along streams 
at the iron deposit on the northeast coast, extending from low 
altitudes to at least 650 meters. 
This species is well characterized by its small, coriaceous, 
nerveless leaves and, although in some respects suggestive of 
Eugenia cagayanensis Merr., it differs radically from the latter 
in its inflorescences and flowers, and is not closely allied to it. 
EUGENIA BERN ARDOI sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra, circiter 5 m alta, ramis ramulisque teretibus; 
foliis oppositis, ovatis ad lanceolatis, basi latissime rotundatis 
et perspicue cordatis, brevissime petiolatis vel subsessilibus, sur- 
sum angustatis, tenuiter acuminatis, usque ad 13 cm longis, 
coriaceis, nitidis, in siccitate olivaceis, epunctatis, nervis prima- 
riis utrinque circiter 15, haud prominulis; infructescentiis ter- 
minalibus, sessilibus vel breviter pedunculatis, cymosis, rhachi- 
bus et ramis circiter 3 cm longis ; fructibus ovoideis, in siccitate 
pallidis, circiter 2.5 cm longis. 
A small glabrous tree, about 5 m high, the branches and 
branchlets slender, terete, about 2 mm in diameter, smooth, 
reddish-brown, the younger parts often with somewhat shredded 
cortex. Leaves coriaceous, epunctate, ovate to lanceolate, oppo- 
site, very shortly petioled or subsessile, 9 to 13 cm long, 2.5 to 5.5 
cm wide across the base which is broadly rounded and rather 
prominently cordate, gradually narrowed upward from near the 
base to the slenderly acuminate apex, when dry olivaceous, 
shining ; lateral nerves slender, not prominent, rather irregular, 
about 15 on each side of the midrib, anastomosing with the sub- 
equally prominent continuous marginal nerve about 1.5 mm 
from the edge of the leaf; petioles 2 mm long or less. Infruc- 
tescence terminal, cymose, excluding the rather large fruits 
about 3 cm long, sessile or shortly peduncled. Fruits pink when 
fresh, when dry pale, ovoid, about 2.5 cm long, the pericarp thin, 
coarsely wrinkled, the persistent calyx lobes 4, subreniform, 
about 3 mm wide. 
Luzon, Cagayan Province, Aparri, For. Bur. 2707 U Bernardo, 
October 16, 1917, in dense forests, altitude about 15 meters, with 
the local name maramaatan. 
